West Tokyo Artist Studio Tour Sunday 29 January, 2017 Exhibitions of art are the thin egg-shell horizon-line of a process far more complex than most people realise. When we talk about art we mostly reference the impact that it has had after the actual engagement with it, a kind of retrospective backstory to a past … Continue reading
Go Watanabe, Light Difference – Face III Urano Gallery; 21 January to 25 February With a lovingly fluid motion we are drawn in, delivered to and destabilised by the mesmerising video works of Go Watanabe at Urano Gallery. In the first room, three moving-images work to ingratiate their way into your inner ear through your … Continue reading
Kohei Sekigawa, figure / out Guardian Garden; 11 January to 27 January Meticulously rendered observational drawing carries a certain appreciative respect in the same way that finely carved figurative marble sculptures do. The attention to detail and focused labour required to execute them well is of an Olympian order, so the residue energies of that … Continue reading
Jud Wimhurst, Gimme Freedom (or Gimme Death) Bendigo Art Gallery; 5 November, 2016 to 12 February 2017 Nostalgia isn’t always the referential craning back for a better time. It isn’t always rose-coloured glasses and halcyon days. Sometimes, the fun-time good-times of the days of yore are dark hearts inside fluffy clouds, where clowns reveal the … Continue reading
Tetsuro Kano, a tree as a city Yuka Tsuruno Gallery; 21 January to 25 February Architectural miniatures constructed by sentient caterpillars and art-fan hummingbirds with a penchant for mid-century Calder mobiles furnish much of the Yuka Tsuruno Gallery in T-Art Complex, Tokyo. Set out over two spaces, the exhibition can be roughly categorised into three … Continue reading
Reijiro Wada | Ariel Schlesinger SCAI The Bathhouse; 27 January to 25 February Eight artworks occupy a square gallery space, set out in iambic rhythm, delivering poetry in materials and ideas. Brass, polished steel and glass sit in equilibrious partnership with brandy, citric acid and bone. Time is both accelerated and accumulated in meditations on … Continue reading
Tomohiro Kano and Yoshiaki Kojiro, (joint exhibition untitled) Gallery Tokyo + Beijing Tokyo Art Projects; 21 January to 18 February Totemic structures sit evenly spaced on the white-tiled floor of a nondescript space on the seventh-floor of an office building in Ginza. Some twenty-four pieces, most of them on flat and polished steel plates, are … Continue reading
